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The EAHIL2009 Workshop in Dublin had as motto : "Working with others: explore, engage, extend" While having drinks with Louise Farragher after the closing of the successful Workshop in Dublin, we talked about using the recordings that were taken of the Opening Session . At that time I still had the idea that there were also video-recordings, but it turned out to be "just" audio. Wouldn't it be great to be abled to listen to the actual voice and speech while seeing the slides and/or pictures of presentations afterwards? For all kinds of reasons, we did not get to really making it work. But now I finally got to it. With the use of Audacity , a  free, open source software for recording and editing sounds, Powerpoint and Slideshare's Slidecast functionality, I created the first 3 Parts of the EAHIL 2009 Opening session and published them via the EAHIL2009 Slideshare account . The pictures used were taken from the Flickr EAHIL2009 Group Pool  . If anyone o...

This is a call on all Health and Medical Information specialist worldwide to submit one or more of your blog posts to the nexts months  MedLibs Blog Carnaval Round  2.8 which will be up at this blog ! The theme of this Round will be: Emerging Technology in Medical and Health Information . You can already start submitting to the next edition (just sign in and enter the URL of your post) at the submission form  here . Y ou can submit any post as long as it is of good quality and pertains to medical and/or health information. I had the pleasure and honour to give a Continuing Education Course (CEC) at EAHIl 2010 on this theme, and am trying to keep the public course up to date at : http://www.netvibes.com/emergingtechnologiesinlibraries The course touched emerging technology issues relevant for academic and medical libraries & librarians. You will find already a lot of information on certain topics, and a few books I can recommend, but it would be great to hea...